deprehendo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From dē- + prēhendo (“seize, catch”); from prae- (“before”) + *hendo (used only in comp.); akin to Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “hold, contain”) and English get.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deː.preˈhen.doː/, [d̪eːpreˈ(ɦ)ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.preˈen.do/, [d̪epreˈɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
dēprehendō (present infinitive dēprehendere, perfect active dēprehendī, supine dēprehēnsum); third conjugation
- I take away, seize, snatch.
- I overtake.
- I catch.
- I surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover.
- I confine.
- I embarrass.
- I comprehend, understand, perceive, detect, discover, discern, observe.
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Descendants
- Asturian: deprender
- Catalan: deprendre
- English: deprehend
- Extremaduran: desprendel
- Galician: deprender
- Italian: disprendere
- Mirandese: çprender
- Portuguese: depreender
- Romanian: deprinde, deprindere
- Spanish: deprehender
References
- “deprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deprehendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere
- to catch a person, find him out: deprehendere aliquem (in aliqua re)
- to take a person in the act: deprehendere aliquem in manifesto scelere
- to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere